Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

(Newser Summary) – Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela more than $2 billion to buy Russian-made weaponry to ward off what the South American country sees as an imminent US-Colombian attack, reports the BBC. “With these rockets, it is going to be very difficult for them to come and bomb us,” said socialist President Hugo Chavez. Chavez plans to buy nearly 100 tanks and anti-aircraft systems as tensions mount in the wake of a Colombia agreement to grant the US more access to military bases there.

(AP Summary) – The world’s oldest known person has died in Los Angeles at age 115. Gertrude Baines died today at a hospital, probably of a heart attack; an autopsy will determine the exact cause. Baines was born in 1894 in Shellman, Ga., and she got a letter from President Obama on her last birthday, in April. The oldest person in the world is now 114-year-old Kama Chinen, who lives in Japan.

(Newser Summary) – Churches nationwide are bracing for cases of swine flu, with one in Cincinnati banning peace handshakes during Mass, the Enquirer reports. The Catholic church passed out a flier telling parishioners not to shake with their neighbors during the “sign of peace” or clasp hands during the “Our Father” prayer. At least three other Cincinnati churches are considering similar measures, as are schools and churches across the US, notes the AP.

(Newser Summary) – Patrick Swayze has left the hospital and gone home to die in his own bed, the National Enquirer reports. Despite the actor’s strong will to live, he has reportedly suffered multiple setbacks in his battle with pancreatic cancer, including a mild heart attack and an ongoing intestinal infection, and now often requires a wheelchair and oxygen. “Patrick’s bodily functions appear to be shutting down,” a Swayze family source said.

The source claimed that Swayze recently told wife Lisa Niemi, “I refuse to die in a hospital room. I’ll go on my own terms—in our home and in my own bed.” Swayze cannot visit his beloved New Mexico ranch because he has to stay close to medical care, and though he is in “constant pain” at his Los Angeles home, “he refuses to give in.”

Note from DNN’s Editor: If you have not already noticed, DNN is boycotting this ridiculous health care (Riots) debate that’s been taking place as of late, for two reasons: #1 it has completely dominated the mainstream news, so you’ll get better coverage of it there. #2 DNN tries to “Drill down” and find news that has been covered up by the mainstream media, but this article seemed special to me, and I thought I’d share it with you.

Source: NYT

Republicans argue that some of the voters’ concerns are justified because, they say, the proposals before Congress do not spell out procedures to verify the citizenship of those who would receive health coverage.

After testing their ideas with voters during the recess, Republicans said they would press for verification measures when the health care debate picks up again in Washington.

“The language is there, but without the verification you can’t frankly believe it is serious,” said Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, who added that concerns about illegal immigrants were clearly on the minds of citizens he met in his district. Mr. Smith said Democrats “intentionally left gaping loopholes” in the proposals that illegal immigrants could step through.

Broad explanations, not intricate detail, were what voters in Georgia were looking for in recent meetings with Representative Phil Gingrey, a Republican who was a practicing physician in the state for 26 years. Mr. Gingrey said there had been an influx of illegal immigrants in his district in the last decade.

“A lot of their kids are in the school system,” Mr. Gingrey said in a telephone interview. “They get a free public education without any question. My constituents don’t want the same thing to happen with regard to health care.”

The rivalry between the world’s leading technology companies intensified today when Microsoft announced that it is suing Google for poaching one of its leading executives.

Microsoft is furious about the defection of Dr Kai-Fu Lee, one of its technology experts and founder of its Asian research division, who has left to head Google’s first research and development centre in China.

Microsoft claims the move violates confidentiality and non-competition agreements Dr Lee signed when he joined the company in 1998. The software company is seeking a court ruling that would require Dr Lee to honour his contract, which it says includes a clause forbidding him to work for a rival within a year of leaving.

“We let him out of the (patrol) car and he ran around like he’d never seen outdoors. It was actually very sad,” Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Stan Diggs said. “He was very happy to be outside. He said he never goes outside.”

Investigators were issued with a court order to search the house. They found Ricky with his mother Shannon Wilfong in a hideaway roughly 5 feet by 12 feet and about the height of a washing machine.

Miss Wilfong, 30, has been charged with felony child abduction and Ricky’s grandmother, Diane Dobbs, 51, is charged with aiding and abetting.

The boy is now staying with one of his father’s relatives while state child-welfare workers investigated claims that his father Mike Chekevdia abused the child before his disappearance.

The 48-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Illinois National Guard rejected the allegations and said he was thrilled his son had been found.

“Two years? You have no idea,” he told The Associated Press from his house in Royalton, Ill., some three miles from the home where his son turned up. “I’ve lost sleep. I’ve lost weight. I’ve gained weight. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody.” READ MORE

STOP BEING BRAINWASHED! NO FAUX NEWS!

About Us:

DNN might look like something from 1995! But we're growing fast! We're already up to nearly 100 news sources to offer you more "Real news" that the mainstream just brushes under the rug before you had a chance to even load the page! And just try to find archives for free (Good luck with that)

DNN is a non-for-profit entity that recieves no money at all, It's just a passion for real news.

DNN does not recognize Plagiarism, We only include short excerpts and we do not include the entire original article, or that would be plagiarism. We include all attribution links for the originating source. The FAIR USE Act of U.S. Copyright Law protects DNN. In accordance with U.S. Code Title 17, Section 107,See for yourself material on this site (along with credit links and attributions to original sources) is viewable for educational and intellectual purposes.

The New York Times has new allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, and it involves another female classmate, this one from his undergraduate days at Yale. Deborah Ramirez tells Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, who have a forthcoming book titled The Education of Brett...

At least 22 people were injured when decks collapsed on one another at a three-story home at the Jersey Shore, reports the AP . Cape May Regional Health System says 21 people are being treated there after Saturday evening's collapse in Wildwood. At least three are children. AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center...

Tropical Storm Humberto moved away from the Bahamas on Saturday after dumping rain on parts of the archipelago's northwest region that were already hammered by Hurricane Dorian two weeks ago, the AP reports. Humberto had lashed the islands as UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited the Bahamas to support humanitarian efforts...

Attorneys for eight drug distributors, pharmacies, and retailers facing trial next month for their roles in the opioid crisis want to disqualify the federal judge overseeing their cases, saying he has shown bias in his effort to obtain a multibillion-dollar global settlement, the AP reports. According to a motion filed...

"I almost died, man. I was in a coma. People were criticizing me as if I deserved to be killed." So said a teary-eyed David Ortiz in his first interview after being shot in the Dominic Republic on June 9, CNN reports. When the bullet slashed through his lower back,...

Forget Yemen. This was all Iran. That was the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's take Saturday after drone attacks struck Saudi Arabian oil facilities and choked half the country's crude production, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pompeo tweeted that it was "an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply. There...

A hotel worker who claimed he was bullied for being vegetarian didn't get much sympathy in a British courtroom, the Telegraph reports. George Conisbee, 20, said he quit his job at a hotel near Lowestoft, Suffolk, after being shouted at for wearing a shirt that wasn't ironed. Conisbee also claimed...

Some people hope to hike the Appalachian Trail once in their lifetime. Adam Tarlin—better known by his trail name of "Baltimore Jack"—did it seven times. His hiking secret? Tarlin essentially lived on the trail year-round, from 1995 until his death in 2016 at age 57, explains Outside magazine....